People not getting their Patch in the 5 first minutes go straight on the gamesas Forums and complains about it. Web Server Overload... anyone?
Steam's network is large enough to handle that. Remember Half-Life 2 release? Huge problems with Steam Preloads and Release-Date-Activation of the game files at first... since then, they added more and more content servers etc... these things take time, caus' they cost. And you know yourself that before you need it, you won't buy bigger stuff just to be sure. So do they.
yeah maybe but tell me is there anyone of nonsteam users that updated his game to 1.4 anyone ??